xvi, 260 p., [4] p. of plates : 24 cm

Includes extensively revised and updated papers originally presented at a conference held at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London in December 2000

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-247) and index

Introduction : ' ... since the time of the Gods' / John Tait -- The ancient Egyptian view of world history / E.P. Uphill -- Archaism and modernism in the reliefs of Hesy-Ra / Whitney Davis -- Looking back into the future : the Middle Kingdom as a bridge to the past / Dietrich Wildung ; translated by Fiona Handley -- Archaism and innovation in art from the New Kingdom to the Twenty-sixth Dynasty / Robert Morkot -- Literature as a construction of the past in the Middle Kingdom / Ludwig D. Morenz ; translated by Martin Worthington -- Representations of the past in New Kingdom literature / Hans W. Fischer-Elfert -- Views of the past in Egypt during the first millennium BC / Antonio Loprieno -- Egypt's views of 'others' / David O'Connor -- Foreigners at Memphis? : Petrie's racial types / Sally-Ann Ashton -- All in the family? : heirlooms in ancient Egypt / David Jeffreys -- The Ptolemaic royal image and the Egyptian tradition / Sally-Ann Ashton

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